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Title: Rod and gun
Year: 1898 (1890s)
Authors: Canadian Forestry Association
Subjects: Fishing Hunting Outdoor life
Publisher: Beaconsfield, Que. (etc.) Rod and Gun Pub. Co. (etc.)
Contributing Library: Gerstein - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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November 1905, withthree other specimens. All five wereborn in May 1905, and were captured inthe mountains north of Fort Steele. Since the arrival of the little herdin New York, all its members havebeen maintained in excellent health.They are fed on very clean crushed oats(in the hull), sliced carrots and potatoes,an occasional apple and all the cloverhay they can eat. There are three adult males and two females, and they havebeen given three large corrals and a rus-tic barn in the southwestern corner of thePark. For amusement and excercisethey climb all over the roof of the barn,and spend much time aloft. Although very level-headed and calm intimes of real danger; the Mountain Goatis shy of being handled, and petted andwith nervous impatience flings itselfaway from an outstretched^hand. Onemember of the herd will permit their keep-er to touch it. Although they are notquarrelsome toward each other, they wereso free in prodding each other with theirskewer-like horns it was necessary to
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THE FIRST ROCKY MOUNTAIN GOAT BRED IN CAPTIVITY. saw off an inch from each horn tip. Quite a number of goats have come in-to captivity, but very tew have survivedlonger than a few months. The cUmaticconditions of the Atlantic coast regionhave carried off eight other goats of ouracquaintance in two years or less, anduntil now it has been doubted whether itwere possible to acclimatize the specieson the Atlantic coast, and maintain it inhealth and vigor up to breeding point.For this reason, the news of the birth inthe New York herd will be hailed withdelight by all sportsmen and nature-lovers. The period of gestation was from No-vember twenty-fifth, 1907 to May twen-tieth, 1908, or four days less than six months. The kid now in the public eyewas born at three a. m. At three-ten itarose to its feet; by three-thirty it wasjumping about the stall, and climbing up-on its mothers back, as she lay upon thestraw. It nursed for the first time atthree-twenty. Two days after birth itwas thirteen a

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